A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.411 — Stacking spaces ⊗ Why Leonardo was a saboteur ⊗ Futuring through discomfort ⊗ Imagining a new digital commons for creative AI ⊗ Project Circle ⊗ Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna
No.410 — Solar abundance ⊗ Matter Battle ⊗ A Glossary for Other Worlds ⊗ Scarcity is driving AI innovation ⊗ Chock full of incredible animals ⊗ Big Think’s 5 favorite nonfiction books
No.409 — The golden age of Bond villains ⊗ Predictions Volume 1 ⊗ GLM-5.2 is a step change ⊗ Earth’s underground fungus network ⊗ Huge collections of Leonardo’s codexes
No.408 — Futures studies as a mosaic 2 ⊗ Digital Colonialism ⊗ How the Squamish built Senakw ⊗ Extreme dynamic symmetry
No.407 — The frame vs. the framer ⊗ The formula won ⊗ Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own ⊗ World Without End ⊗ It hunts using its shadow
No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC
No.405 — Big Tech’s anti-labor playbook ⊗ Evidence for the future? ⊗ Māori data sovereignty ⊗ Superhot rock holds the energy of the future ⊗ Britain tries a new solution: beavers
No.404 — Le mal du siècle, bis ⊗ AI Resist List and the Luddite Lab ⊗ Microcosm Industries ⊗ Narrative inheritance ⊗ Books in an age of AI ⊗ The near-term future of climate adaptation ⊗ The Neanderthal dentist
No.403 — Being harvested by the future ⊗ The impact of AI-generated text ⊗ Paris staged a huge stress test for extreme heat ⊗ Mesmerizing cat-5 super typhoon
No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite archipelago ⊗ Where Europe’s population is shrinking ⊗ Rogue One: The Andor Cut
No.401 — Why are London’s top galleries full of laptops? ⊗ This is how we get moral AI companies ⊗ Space to Breathe ⊗ The zero-days are numbered ⊗ A complete guide to the AMOC ⊗ The GDT Nature Photographer of the Year
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale
No.399 — The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point ⊗ Frugal AI ⊗ Design futures in infrastructure ⊗ The AI revolution in math has arrived ⊗ First Indigenous Group to ban data centers from its land ⊗ A macro array of colorful slime molds
